Mark Billingham Quotes

Libraries raised me.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries are where it all begins.

My mother taught me to read.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.